Motivational Quotes

Learning

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

- Young, Edward

Best Quotes about Learning

Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

King, Doug

That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.

Lessing, Doris

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Tracy, Brian

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.

Waitley, Denis

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Erasmus, Desiderius

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

White, Patrick

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

We learn by teaching.

Proverb

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Proverb, Chinese

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All learning has an emotional base.

Plato

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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Young, Edward

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There is no time of life past learning something.

Ambrose, St.

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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.

Falkland, Lucius C.

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Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Buzan, Tony

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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Seneca

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Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

Twain, Mark

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If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.

Crane, Frank

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Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.

Proverb, English

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Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.

Deming, W. Edwards

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Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

Gregory The Great, St.

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Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.

Bennis, James

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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Adler, Mortimer J.

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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Van Buren, Abigail

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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Baker, Newton D.

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It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Ruskin, John

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Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Trotsky, Leon

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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Einstein, Albert

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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Sher, Barbara

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Take good hold of instruction and don't let her go, keep her for she is your life.

Bible

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In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Naisbitt, John

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For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.

Carte, L.

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Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Gelb, Michael J.

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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Bacon, Francis

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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

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Wear your learning like a watch and do not pull it out merely to show you have it. If you are asked for the time, tell it; but do not proclaim it hourly unasked.

Chesterfield, Lord

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This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

Haydon, Benjamin

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The years teach us much the days never knew.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.

Hall, Milton

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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing

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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

Kraus, Karl

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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Doherty, Henry L.

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Who God does not teach, man cannot.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Heinlein, Robert

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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.